The Legality‚ Morality‚ and Social Responsibility of the Affordable Care Act and Florida Blue. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23rd‚ 2010. The Act is a daring attempt by President Barack Obama to reform the healthcare system in the United States. The new healthcare reform act is historical because of its scope and size. Opponents to the healthcare act state it is an attempt to increase the size and power of the federal government and
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Running Head: GENDER EQUALITY Gender Equality: Women Serving Less Time than Men for Identical Crimes Abstract The Federal criminal sentencing guideline which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005 required that males and females who commit the same crime and have the same prior criminal history be sentenced equally (Oaxaca‚ Sarnikar‚ & Sorensen‚ 2007). By using data obtained from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice records‚ we examine the existence of any gender-based bias
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Density Matters: The Effects of Urban Growth Boundaries on Florida Urban Densities Prepared by Submitted to ___ Executive Summary Urban growth boundaries (UGB) are a growth management tool adopted from early English land use traditions to categorize land use. UGB’s are boundaries that clearly delineate the limit of the urban density growth permitted and supported by the issuing municipality. Florida instituted the Growth Management Act in 1985‚ mandating local comprehensive
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many historians‚ although not many accounts are able to capture the reader’s attention so well as that of Barbara Tuchman. Historian Barbara Tuchman’s integration of animated writing and careful research serves to create a palatable and pleasing‚ although quite repulsive‚ essay. In her essay‚ "’This is the End of the World’ The Black Death‚" Tuchman writes about the bubonic plague. Her essay includes descriptions of the plague and the filth associated with it. Tuchman uses excerpts from the writings
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Go Sound The Trumpet :rise Of Black Students Consciousness In Tallahassee And The State Of Florida By Theodore Hemingway And I hope to Theodore Hemmingway has written a very informative book titled “The rise of black students: consciousness in Tallahassee and the state of Florida” which gives a historical synopsis of the fundamental role that was played by the black student fraternity in the fight for social justice in the early years of the 20th century. The American society of the 1920s was
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global level; yet when it comes to love‚ we as humans have difficulties understanding it. As mentioned before‚ the universe is extraordinarily complex; and love is one of those complicated things that requires a particular shift in point of view. Barbara Fredrickson‚ in her “Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel‚ Think‚ Do‚ and Become‚” offers a new perspective of love. Love from “your body’s perspective‚” as Fredrickson claims‚ allows us to approach love in a “scientific” sense
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‘Justice is under threat in the risk society’‚ is Barbara Hudson right to argue this? In the UK the state advised what it expects of us and in response to this gives us laws that we are not legitimate to disobey. We currently live in a de facto and de jure state where no one else can take part in violence apart from the state when needed‚ and the laws are seen as just. From the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century there has been a change in society creating a modernist era which saw
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Are formal and semi formal financial institution partnerships a viable option for serving the underserved in India Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar 10/6/2010 Indu Paramita Mahapatra and Malay Harsh The essay tries to identify the potential problems with financial sector and does a gap analysis that leads to potential opportunities in the sector. It also takes a look at the challenges faced by the different financial institutions‚ the goals achieved‚ the targets
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1. “Why Don’t We Complain” Question 2 Employing simple anecdotes‚ William F. Buckley argues in his essay “Why Don’t We Complain”‚ that as people continue to ignore rudimentary issues‚ their passivity is transferring into political indifference. Buckley begins with a simple story of how “train temperatures in the dead of the winter… climb up to 85 degrees without complaint” and how “For generations‚ Americans who were too hot‚ or too cold‚ got up and did something about it”. Although there were many
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Comparison of Title VII to Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 Did the Title VII section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (updated in 1991) go far enough and provide adequate protection for the U.S. workforce? For the vast majority of states‚ the answer is a resounding yes; most states defer to the federal legislation for employment-related discrimination laws. There are‚ however‚ a handful of states that have enacted their own versions of Title VII; in doing so‚ they are effectively saying that no
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